The Women and Extremism (WaE) programme, launched by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) in January 2015, is dedicated to studying the active and counteractive aspects of women and extremism. The Women and Extremism (WaE) network brings together academics, researchers, practitioners, grassroots activists, and others to help produce counter and alternative narrative content, initiatives, and programmes to lessen the threat of violent extremism within this new phenomenon.